Studio VU welcomes Amanda Leigh Evans to close out the 2025-2026 season
The Vanderbilt University Department of Art is pleased to announce that Amanda Leigh Evans as our next Studio VU Lecture Series Visiting Artist with a lecture on Wednesday, February 25, 2026.
Amanda Leigh Evans is an artist, educator and cultivator investigating social and ecological interdependence. Her work manifests as research-driven ceramic objects, performance, print and digital media, public art, and long-term collaborative systems. Evans’ work oscillates between self-contained bodies of work for contemporary art spaces and multi-year, site-specific collaborative projects created with community partners. Evans holds an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a Post-Bacc in Ceramics from Cal State Long Beach. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Her campus visit includes a lecture and studio visits with the Vanderbilt University Department of Art. Evans will present her lecture: “Socially Engaged Collaboration in Deep Time” on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 4:10pm in Room 220 of the EBI Studio Arts Center.
Evans will also participate as a panelist for a discussion on Art, Resilience, and Civic Participation at the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University and their current exhibition “Resilience + Adaptation” on view thru April 24, 2026. you can register for the panel event here -> https://events.vanderbilt.edu/event/98330-panel-on-art-resilience-and-civic-participation
About Studio VU:
The Department of Art annually invites national and international voices in creative, curatorial, and critical-thought fields to the Vanderbilt campus through the Studio VU Lecture Series. Each visiting lecturer has a recognized career in visual arts, performance art, art criticism, and/or a combination. In addition to giving a lecture, the visiting speaker conducts one-on-one critiques with senior art major students.
The Studio VU Lecture Series began in 2007 initiated by Mel Ziegler, Professor of Art emeritus.. The Department of Art would like to thank all collaborators, cosponsors, and community members for their continued support for the Studio VU program.
All lectures are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.